Monthly Archives: February 2013
Addressing Interdisciplinary Digital Literacy | The Cengage Learning Blog
February 25th, 2013
What does “digital literacy” mean to students as it applies to your courses? Share your thoughts with us in the comments section below, or e-mail us at thinktank@cengage.com.
As we’ve discussed previously on the blog, digital literacy is an essential tool for preparing students for their future workplaces. When you teach students how to be digitally literate, you’re not only instilling important technical skills, but also an understanding of appropriate use of that technology. But being digitally literate doesn’t mean the same thing to everyone. Depending on a student’s field of study, his or her needs in understanding certain technology skills could vary greatly.
In this video, Cengage Learning author Ken Baldauf discusses his work in evaluating what digital literacy means for students in various fields of study. He talks about how he studies the ways in which computers are used in each discipline to uncover what computer skills are needed in various areas of study, thereby equipping students with the technology skills needed to prepare them for careers in their degree program fields. Read more…
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- A Great Digital Literacy Skills Continuum for Teachers (educatorstechnology.com)
- TEALS: A Novel Way To Bring Digital Literacy To The Classroom – Edudemic (edudemic.com)
- On the Front Lines of Digital Inclusion (districtdispatch.org)
- New: Digital Literacy Report Released by ALA’s Office For Information Technology Policy (infodocket.com)
- Digital literacy – a new language for disruption (slideshare.net)
- A Must Have Poster on Digital Literacy (teacherlingo.com)
- TEI and Libraries: New Avenues for Digital Literacy? (acrl.ala.org)
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The Busy Person’s Guide To Social Media – Edudemic [Infographic]
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How to Conduct Scientific Research On the Internet (Without Getting Duped)
How to Conduct Scientific Research On the Internet (Without Getting Duped).
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How to Conduct Scientific Research On the Internet (Without Getting Duped)
You know how to tell if something controversial is actually true, but what if you want to read up on something without stumbling into half-truths and pseudoscience? Here’s how to use the internet as a powerful research tool without being led astray.
The internet is full of useful, well-documented information, and all of it is right at our fingertips. The problem is that the signal-to-noise ratio can be pretty low. Most search engines try to separate the real science from unsourced opinions and so-called “experts” only interested in selling books, but it’s not enough to guarantee validity. With these tips, you’ll learn how to quickly cut through the weeds and get to the good stuff in no time. Read more…
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Aaron Swartz Was Right – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of Higher Education
Aaron Swartz Was Right – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of Higher Education.
February 25, 2013
Aaron Swartz Was Right
The suicide of the Internet wunderkind Aaron Swartz has given rise to a great deal of discussion, much of it centered on whether the penalty sought against him by the prosecutor was proportional to his “crime.”
The consensus so far has been that Swartz did something wrong by accessing and releasing millions of academic papers from the JSTOR archive. But perhaps it is time to ask whether Swartz did in fact act wrongly. We might entertain the possibility that Swartz’s act of civil disobedience was an attempt to help rectify a harm that began long ago. Perhaps he was not only justified in his actions but morally impelled to act as he did. Moreover, we too might be morally impelled to take action.
To put it bluntly, the current state of academic publishing is the result of a series of strong-arm tactics enabling publishers to pry copyrights from authors, and then charge exorbitant fees to university libraries for access to that work. The publishers have inverted their role as disseminators of knowledge and become bottlers of knowledge, releasing it exclusively to the highest bidders. Swartz simply decided it was time to take action.
He laid the philosophical groundwork back in 2008, in an essay entitled “Guerilla Open Access Manifesto.”
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- Aaron Swartz’s FBI File (boingboing.net)
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- VIDEO: Is Aaron Swartz an internet ‘martyr’? (bbc.co.uk)
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